In the November 12 episode of Fox’s Family Guy, titled “The D in Apartment 23,” when Brian, the Griffin family dog, and Stewie visit the Quahog University Library, they see a student protest on campus so they stop by. Mocking Millennials perfectly, a student tells Brian that they have gathered to demand the university president be fired. His offense? He didn’t overreact when the word “weird” was discovered written on the transgender bathroom.
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A crowd gathers outside the movie theater and chases Brian home. Once there, the Griffin family is waiting for him. “It’s not 2005. You can’t just go online and say whatever you want,” Lois says. Brian deletes the tweet but, as we all know, the Internet is forever. All the members of the family experience the public’s wrath as they try to go about their lives. One kid at the high school doesn’t accept Chris’ explanation that Brian’s tweet was a joke. He says, “We live in a post-joke world.” Isn’t that the truth!
The crowd of protesters will not leave the lawn of the Griffin’s house so Brian is finally convinced to just step outside and apologize. Naturally, no one is willing to listen. The crowd is angry and the perfect line is uttered by one angry man – “Anything that makes me uncomfortable in 2017 should be illegal.”
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